Newmark's Door: Rankings of economics blogs

Craig Newmark succumbs and begins ranking economics weblogs:

Newmark's Door: Rankings of economics blogs: Among the things economists are notorious for in academia is our intense--close to obsessive--interest in rankings. Rankings of journals, of particular papers, of individual economists, and of departments. (This assertion should be backed by some citations, but I don't want to make time to find them. Just trust me.) So I figured it was just a matter of time until someone produced a detailed ranking of economics blogs. Especially since I invited my many millions of readers to produce one over a year ago. But I haven't seen one. And a few minutes spent Googling suggests that there isn't one. So I guess it falls to me to begin this neglected but vitally important task...

On principle, I refuse to look further down the page.

:-)

Comments

[Andrew]

You have nothing to fear but fear itself.

[John Emerson]

Sawicky is not listed, though I'm sure that he places high in the economists' "Dog Meat" rankings. And Brad ranks a honking two places ahead of the up-and-coming star of the profession, Megan Jane Galt. I didn't see where Luskin (the non-Rove-lawyer-one) ranked.

[Jonas!]

Among the things economists are notorious for in academia is our intense--close to obsessive--interest in rankings.

I thought that describes philosophers. Anyway, two of the top 5 blogs could also be considered philosophy blogs. I don't know how that is related.

[jerry]

Namespace collision. Please redo your blog post:

econ::Craig Newmark to disambiguate from craiglist::Craig Newmark.

[bad Jim]

"The clear winner in this ranking is Brad DeLong."

There. You win. Happy? You should be. You do us all an enormous favor by doing this. Thanks.

[NA]

"You do us all an enormous favor by doing this. Thanks."

Amen!

[Adam]

Is Crooked Timber really an economics blog?